[2020] A new miner?

Greetings all,

Speaking strictly for the balance of the main game, should there be a new miner? Now I know everyone's individual playstyle is different. I just feel like there should be something after electric miners. Burner miners, I make maybe 10-15 of them. Just enough to get me going until the electric age. This means that the electric miner takes me from the early game to megabase.

I am just spitballling here but obviously a miner that was bigger or faster would be nice. Or one with built in power poles. Maybe even ones with internal buffers that could be like passive storage chests? What about nuclear powered ones? Ones that require lube but mine 2-3x as fast.

Just was wondering what everyone elses opinion is on this.

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Originally posted by trixie_mcpixie

I think it would be cool if there were mining robots you could research. They would not by flying robots, would work within a ground range of a robo port, deposit into the logistics network, and need to recharge in a similar way to flying robots.

The pros would be very little pollution (equivalent to hand mining) and very little infrastructure (no belts, power poles, miner machines, etc.. just a robo port).

The cons would be that they can't increase productivity in the same way that mining productivity improves the electric miners, and speed could only be increased with worker robot speed / cargo size.

They would be useful for midgame outposts, allowing for simple setup and giving off little pollution, but later game the regular miners would be favoured again.

Like these guys: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Mining_Drones

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